Molyneux has big plans for the future of Black & White

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In a recent interview with 1up.com's plucky news editor blogger extraordinaire Jane Pinckard, Lionhead's Peter Molyneux casually mentioned his plans to develop three more Black & White[/i] games[/i] after Black & White 2, bringing the grand total of the series to five. He said that the plan is to set each successive game approximately one thousand years further into the future, placing Black & White 5 in the modern day. Though this plan was mentioned a few years ago, the fact that Molyneux is bringing it up again might mean that he really means it this time, guys. He also states that the team at Lionhead had originally planned to incorporate your Creature having a baby into Black & White 2, but that this feature was cut due to time constraints. Maybe they're saving it for BW3, 4, or 5?

One might think that after the whole Fable "plant a tree and watch it grow" fiasco, Molyneux would avoid speculating wildly about games that aren't even in development yet. But considering the five-year gap between 2000's Black & White and this year's upcoming Black & White 2, the boys at Lionhead should have until about 2020 to bring Molyneux's big dreams to fruition. More power to'em, I suppose.

Posted by Steve Gaynor

Associated Games
- Black & White 2
- Black & White 3
- Black & White 4
- Black & White 5

Associated Companies
- Lionhead Studios

[Snubs]

Five games. That could get dull. But having a creature and commanding armies with tanks and crap... it's a Godzilla sandbox!

[Marek]

In 2020, Peter Molyneux will be a footnote.

[Sirus]

"Black and White 2 will be the greatest god game ever created. No seriously guys, you gotta believe me!"

[Snubs]

Marek:

In 2020, Peter Molyneux will be a footnote.

More than I'll be.

[General Fuzzy McBitty]

Sirus:

"Black and White 2 will be the greatest god game ever created. No seriously guys, you gotta believe me!"

Announcing 5 games this early on sorta says:

Black and White 2 will be the greatest god game ever created. No seriously guys, you gotta believe me!

After that Black and White 3 will be the greatest god game ever created. No seriously guys, you gotta believe me!

Then Black and White 4 will be the greatest god game ever created. No seriously guys, you gotta believe me!

Black and White 5 will totally be the greatest god game ever created. No seriously guys, you gotta believe me!

[twmac]

From what I hear... and don't quote me on this because it is probably all bollocks. But Black and White 2 is definitely going in one direction which is different to its predecessor. But the plans for the second sequel are completely open.

As in numero 3 could take on board the criticisms of number 2 and improve tenfold.

As big as Lion head is, it would be interesting to see an independant Dev team work on this project, under Molyneaux's watchful eye. And see what happens.